Running Nintendo DS homebrew - Simon van de Berg
Running Nintendo DS homebrew - Simon van de Berg
Running Nintendo DS homebrew - Simon van de Berg
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Part 4: Saving the data, choose your hardware type<br />
Storing Homebrew applications<br />
You have learned that <strong>DS</strong> <strong>homebrew</strong> boots from the GBA slot or <strong>DS</strong> slot, and how you can get<br />
your <strong>DS</strong> to boot co<strong>de</strong> from the GBA slot (in <strong>DS</strong> mo<strong>de</strong>). It is now time to choose between GBA<br />
or N<strong>DS</strong> media (adapters) and what kind of product.<br />
There are very many different producers of media (adapters) carts. I make a general difference<br />
between media carts (flash carts) and media adapters.<br />
GBA flash carts 4<br />
A GBA flash cart is a GBA game cart that you can flash yourself, an example is the EFA linker 1,<br />
as is shown below:<br />
These carts were originally <strong>de</strong>veloped for use with the GBA, but with the correct cart you can<br />
also run <strong>Nintendo</strong> <strong>DS</strong> <strong>homebrew</strong>.<br />
Because these carts have been around for quite a while, there are many different producers and<br />
they are also wi<strong>de</strong>ly available (also on second-hand markets). But since they have been around<br />
for so long, and were meant for use with the GBA, their size is limited: the biggest ones are<br />
usually 1024Mbit or 512Mbit (with many being just 256Mbit). The G6 (see below) is an<br />
exception.<br />
When you boot <strong>homebrew</strong>, you will have to perform certain steps before it can boot from your<br />
GBA flash cart. These steps vary for each cart and brand, so I will not <strong>de</strong>scribe how to do this.<br />
Some carts come with their own software to help you with that process, others come only with<br />
software to let you flash data to the card and others come without software at all.<br />
I do not recommend buying a new GBA flash cart. If you have one already it is a nice point to<br />
start you off, but I would get a media adapter instead soon after getting <strong>homebrew</strong> to run.<br />
Maybe when you are able to buy a GBA flash cart very cheap you can<br />
consi<strong>de</strong>r it, else you are better of with a media adapter. There is however,<br />
also the G6 flash adapter:<br />
4 top; EFA linker 1 (C)opyright scorpei; see http://scorpei.com/ for <strong>de</strong>tails<br />
bottom right; G6flash 3d generation (C)opyright G6flash all rights reserved<br />
bottom left; 2xG6flash lite (3d generation G6flash) for <strong>DS</strong>lite (C)opyrigh scorpei; see http://scorpei.com/ for <strong>de</strong>tails
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